Also how I got my favorite color shirt.

I kept reading r/Eve for years after winning. Seemed to slow down after the casino war, then the Mittani left. Just today I see that Pandemic Horde is disbanding.

Considering that it cost him nothing to create the coins, I’d say he and his fellow top-holders have gained $4.8B. The 20% they’ve already converted to cash, mostly in the beginning, north of $25, is another $6B. When you’re selling a stock of free bytes, it really doesn’t matter what the rubes are willing to pay each other in the secondary market. They’ve already cashed out: anything left is just gravy.

This is one of those questions where it’s very easy to project one’s vision of their own mortality onto the mirror of their pet. Like, for me, personally, I dread becoming so enfeebled that the tasks of daily life slip beyond my strength, to say nothing of mental incapacity, and I very much do not want to live that way. I know people who would rather lie in bed, maintained by machines, ass wiped by a stranger, for years than give up. We can’t ever know what the internal life of our pets is like, can’t know if they’re aware of their own mortality in the way that we are, but we will be responsible for their geriatric care and end-of-life decisions. ‘What I would want for myself,’ is the best place to start.

Good time to be a grifter; good time to be an extortionist; good time to be a politician with his own cryptocurrency. Nothing else is real.

Tandoor: I ended up there because it has an API that I can access and cross-reference to my grocer (Kroger.com also has API) to get current pricing, calculate recipe costs, nutrient costs, or find what’s on special this week. It’s theoreticcally possible, but I haven’t sorted out how to integrate that directly into tandoor & its shopping lists.

It’s been sold a few times and now a shadow of its former glory. I think they still do the thing where random users are selected each day to moderate comments, and anyone can log in and ‘meta-moderate’ those actions up or down. Can’t see why any caretaker would change that. Comments still scored negative to +5, collapsed at <3, invisible <1. It’s a good strategy for silencing crap, but it really promoted groupthink, because any comment that got visible would quickly be modded to +5 or -1. Still seems to have an editor-approval process for selecting stories from the firehose.

I think the main difference between /. circa 1998 and modern social media is that social sites in 1998 were small enough that the founder was a user, probably the main programmer, and probably fewer than 10 collaborators. Kids goofing around with their university’s free bandwidth and direct connection to the internet, before firewalls became a thing. They might have thought about making some money, but it wasn’t the main goal. More interested in a good experience for their users than in collecting all the possible users. My recollection is slashdot was one of the first sites to have programmatic content generation. I know I based my own first CMS off their ‘slashcode.’ In Perl.

II don’t know if this is me getting old, decay of platforms, or losing touch with the ‘good’ communities.

I have a lot of nostalgia for…even going back to slashdot, where I could load a page & be fairly certain to see (among a bunch of dumb shit) something new and interesting, worth going to read in more depth, and probably find added value in the discussion. Reddit had that, especially in focused communities. Lemmy…kind of, but I think it’s still too small, or maybe too meme-focused.

Of course, in those good old days, I was naive and dumb. There was a lot more information that I had never seen before. Tech, generally, seemed more dynamic, where now it’s kind of ossified around Meta, Google, and nvidia. New developments feel incremental.

I’m online just as much now, but it feels like just reading headlines & nothing really worth pursuing deeper.

I saw Marques Brownlee’s review of the Xiaomi SU7 yesterday, and the contrast with this Lucid review is amazing. MB spent his time gushing over how amazing and bug-free the software was, how great the UI/UX, and all the little quality-of-life details in the hardware and design.

The “resist government tyranny” people have always been a (very vocal) fringe group. Quasi-historical, quasi-fantasy, a little bit like historical re-enactors, but with a plot that makes it seem like they could be talking about today and real life. AFAIK, no one outside the groups actually think they will be the people to lead an armed resistance, mostly because no one outside of the groups actually thinks there will ever be a circumstance involving a widespread, armed resistance.

The one I knew, we’re sitting in this little pizza shop having lunch, and he starts going on about how he’s mapped the exits and positions of cover in the restaurant, in case a crew would barge in to rob the cafe and its patrons. Had his eye on a couple of people who might be troublemakers. Obviously had his gun with him, but probably too many people around to use it if the place did get raided. All in this nice, quiet, suburban neighborhood.

I can’t say for other insurers, but mine still gives covid shots to non-recommended groups with no out-of-pocket cost. Their epidemiologists and actuaries still know that preventative care is way more profitable than emergency care, even if the lawyers kowtow to policy. I imagine that birth-hepatitis vax will be similar, but everything about births seems to be a cash grab for them.

I went for a covid vax last week, and my provider required me to read this long statement about how covid vaccination is only recommended for people over 65 or people with specific health conditions. They made me ‘attest’ to understanding that the vaccine isnot* recommended for me, but that I was voluntarily requesting it.

Now, I know that’s some lawyer bullshit. The practitioner agreed it was new corporate policy, but they were careful not to say anything that would have indicated a personal or professional belief other than the corporate legalese. And I’m pretty sure that some people, reading that a treatment is not recommended, will interpret that as actively discouraging rather than the absence of encouragement.

A lot depends on how many users you expect and how much media you expect. For one or two users with that stack, transcoding media is really the only CPU load. If most of your media is already in your desired format, then that’s not a big deal.

My stack is pretty similar (no *arr, plus tvheadend, homeassistant and a kodi frontend) for two users and it sits near idle all day long. It runs on an N100 NAS system off Aliexpress with 16GB and will transcode 1080p to x264 at just about playback speed… System runs from a 100 GB nvme, with a couple half-full 4 TB WD Reds for data. 35-ish Watts, maybe an extra 5 when actively transcoding. Used to be ~150 USD,

If you want a lot of 4k content, then I’d definitely go with the GTX 1660.

Republicans are always looking for small populations to fuck over. There’s only ~25M people on ACA, or about 7% of the population. The rules are complicated and mostly hidden behind automatic calculations done by marketplace websites, so most people’s experience is just that the website gives them a price list and they choose one to pay. Can’t tell if price hikes are due to actual insurance company rate hikes, changes in the tax credit structure, or their own increased income.

For politicians, it’s a pretty safe bet that the size of the affected population and obscurity of the cost structure will prevent any serious organized blowback. Insurance companies are going to be scapegoats for this.

Same. Eventually upgraded to a Pi 4, which doesn’t have any trouble with 1080p content. Pi 3’s onboard wifi was also problematic, and I had to run it over wired networking. Kept that for the Pi 4, so I don’t know if its wifi is any better.

The GOP got where it is today by repeatedly replacing establishment Republicans with more conservative republicans, until ‘right wing nutjob’ became the baseline. I no longer believe that replacing Republicans with corporate democrats will make things change. Slow the bleeding, maybe, but not change. Replacing corporate Democrats with progressives is the only way we’re going to move the needle now.

If he knew what he was doing, would he need to be vibe coding? The target audience are exactly the people most susceptible to collateral damage.

Edit: Sorry y’all, I’ve been informed I have apparently committed the gave sin of engaging in the Wrong Kind of Fun for this Community.

Yeah, you should ignore that dude. Seems to have made a hobby of telling people “That’s not LAMF” and collecting downvotes.

I, for one, thought “Trendy R aqua” was great. The Mexican branch of Hydro Homies.

It’s giving me vibes like…other people have been signing stuff in Trump’s name that he only discovers later, or that he’s signed a bunch of stuff that - discovering later - he wants to blame on other people.

Or maybe he just thinks he was President during Biden’s term. But I’m pretty sure even Trump can’t govern via social media post.

“Infinite” universes, like NMS or Starfield sound good in marketing, but if you’re really moving around them, at scale speeds, they can’t help but feel isolated and instanced. Even LNF, if it’s a whole ‘earth like’ planet, is huge. Earth has about 50M square miles of habitable surface - if you drop 10,000,000 people in there randomly, you’re going to have to walk half an hour to have a chance to find another player, if they happen to be on at the same time. It shouldn’t have the sharp breaks between biomes that fast-travel to a different planet gives, and I expect that will make it feel a lot more coherent.